Freitag, 18. Juli 2008

Ghost Town

In der Linksammlung meiner Webseite  befindet sich seit vielen Jahren »Elena's Reise -  inzwischen mehr als nur  eine einzige  Reise - durch die verstrahlten Gebiete von Tschernobyl - Ghost Town.

Ich möchte die Lektüre dieser Webseite im Anschluss an den »Artikel zu Kernkraftwerken hier mal empfehlen -  was Elena fotografiert und dazu schreibt, geht unter die Haut.

" What is most striking here is the contrast between the world of Civilization which is ours and the world of Nature. The world of civilisation is physical, while Chernie is a metaphysical world, " meta" means " after" , Chernobyl is the world after physics. The world of Nature is something that exists of itself, it is how this world has been for millions of years before us and how it will be after us, while civilization is mere appearance, it is not " just there," it is not self-supporting. It is artificial and requires engineering and science to support it. If we want to make use of the advantages of civilisation, but are not prepared to concern ourself with the upholding of civilisation we are done for. In a trice we find ourselves left without civilisation. Just a push of a wrong button and everything goes straight to a primitive state. We look around and see that civilization is vanishing into the air, like fata morgana. The primitive forest appears in its native state, just as if the curtains of Civilization, covering pure Nature, have been drawn back."